Browsing: Regulation
Antitrust cases, privacy laws and safety rules aimed at the tech industry, explained with what each one requires and who actually has to comply.
Apple confirmed Siri AI enters public beta this month in English, with the EU and China left out. The feature drawing the most attention listens to the room.
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar want to permanently ban superintelligent AI, pause frontier development and hit corporate violators with what they call the corporate death penalty.
Google has rolled out a DMA mandated redesign of search results across the EU, stripping live hotel and flight prices and calling it the largest quality drop in the company’s 29 year history.
Sony collected roughly $508 million in tariff refunds after the Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs, then asked a court to throw out the lawsuits demanding that PS5 buyers see any of it. A much smaller console maker did the opposite.
Tesla opened paid Cybercab rides in Austin using a two seat car with no steering wheel or pedals. Hours earlier, NHTSA opened an audit query into how Tesla certified the vehicle as road legal in the first place.
The largest school district in the United States has paused student-facing generative AI from pre-K through eighth grade for a full year, disabled the AI features in more than 38 approved programs, and given high schoolers criticism classes instead. It is the broadest moratorium any district has attempted.
The Department of War added tailored versions of ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil, its secure AI portal, alongside Google’s Gemini. Of the 3 million eligible military and civilian personnel, 1.7 million had already signed up, though reporting found some staff learned about the rollout only after it went live.
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act on August 31, 2026, the first time an AI chatbot has been placed in that legal category. OpenAI now has until December to complete risk audits, algorithmic transparency and researcher data access, or face fines of up to 6% of global revenue.
California’s DMV has issued its first heavy-duty autonomous vehicle testing permits to Aurora and Kodiak, and trucks are already on public roads. The permits come with a safety driver, a speed limit rule, and a lawsuit filed eight days earlier.
A national emergency declaration restricts foreign made transformers, breakers, inverters and grid control software. The catch is that a replacement transformer already carries a 128 week wait, and US power demand is climbing for the first time in fifteen years.